Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."
  • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    5 days ago

    Funny how it was outrageous when Musk did it, and now it’s already common and accepted…

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      5 days ago

      I’m old enough to remember Nintendo suing GameGenie for making the test codes on their games more broadly accessible. And Apple suing indie firms that made 3rd party peripherals for their devices. Don’t forget Microsoft’s unholy war on Netscape Navigator, as they deliberately tried to sabotage the popular third party web browser from working via various Microsoft updates. Hell, I think you can find case law in the 1920s on Ford Motor Company fighting spare parts manufacturers and trying to box them out of the industry. Corporate dinosaurs fighting to keep startups from interfacing with their products is a tale as old as time.

      Historically, Facebook/Google/Twitter/et al were focused on integrating with common systems, because they were the underdogs struggling against firms like Microsoft and Comcast who were trying to maintain their Walled Garden. Now they’re kings of the hill, pushing competition off their doorstep.

      Its sleazy and toxic and ultimately bad for the industry as a whole. But its nothing new.

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Yea, antitrust is nothing new, I agree

        But musk was first banning specific URLs from being posted on a social network for other reasons than security or piracy.

        And as a note, it seems that facebook after all only had a bad spam protection automation rather than malicious intent 🤔

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 days ago

        Microsoft’s

        I would have sworn you wrote McDonalds the first time, and I was like wtf went on there that I had no idea about, until you got to the 2nd Microsoft.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    5 days ago

    Funny thing, Pixelfed isn’t even a competitor to Instagram in the very very strictest sense.

    Pixelfed is a federated service for posting photos.

    Instagram started out as a service for posting photos, but it has become this… thing. I don’t even know anymore.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      312·
      5 days ago

      but it has become this… thing.

      It’s very appropriate to call Instagram now… a thing. The site just became something to post bragadacious, fake rich lifestyle photos, people wanting to become meme themselves, or scantily clad girls looking for attention for themselves if not for their OnlyFans.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        5 days ago

        bragadacious. I learneded a new english today.

        Err I mean. Obviously I already knew the word and it’s meaning, and even how to say it. I know a lot of words. People always comment on how many words I know. Im just really smart, to be honest.

      • ramirezmike@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I find it useful for finding local events where I live, updates from local businesses and newspapers… it’s also cool for following artists or bands I care about.

        Idk, it’s in a weird space between facebook, what twitter used to be and tiktok. It can be useful if you curate your feed right 🤷‍♂️

  • Garibaldee@lemm.eeEnglish
    861·
    5 days ago

    Owned by someone almost no one likes, shoves 1000s of ads down your throat, can’t even look at something someone else sent you because you don’t have an account. Why are people leaving???

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    24·
    5 days ago

    Zucky is feeling insecure.

    I’d say provide links (maybe in an escape hub page) for all the Meta main service pages, to assert dominance.

    If you want to be nasty, track how often those links have been clicked. (Meta can’t win. If it’s too low, it shows nobody wants to go there. If it’s too high, it means people are using the page as a Meta hub.)

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    I"ve been on Pixelfed for three days and, sadly, it’s pretty underwhelming.

    I’m going to give it a few weeks though and build up a feed.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        5 days ago

        Last week. Was is admin chat talking about moving a group to lemmy. And FB deleted admin chat posts containing links to lemmy.world.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          5 days ago

          So not .world, it was Facebook?

          Edit. Ah! Im slow lol I get you now. FB removed the lemmy link. Thanks

          • Jeffool @lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            5 days ago

            hah thanks for your line of questioning. I too initially thought they were saying LW was blocking PixelFed.

  • spireghost@lemmy.zipEnglish
    68·
    5 days ago

    I don’t get why people rush to the next replica platform that will go down the exact same path of overstimulating you / mentally harming you.

    Just delete Instagram.

    Don’t replace it.

    • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      26·
      5 days ago

      One advantage of Pixelfed is that it not a commercial company. So unlike Instagram, they do not have financial motivation to addict and exploit. So for people who are interested in seeing and sharing picture galleries, that seems like a good option to me.

      (Personally I don’t use Instagram or Pixelfed, or any other similar service.)

    • NineMileTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      I deleted instagram. I held on to Facebook for 2 reasons. One, marketplace has taken over as the only viable local resell platform. And Two, it’s the only platform I can use to share my music locally and vastly. I want my friends, family, and neighbors to hear my music and other than handing out a card with QR code to my Spotify, then I kind of stuck.